Monthly Archive: March 2002

So it was all a sham. What a shame.

I note that the arrival of the Northern Alliance Tajik forces into this area (as I mentioned here) has caused ructions with the local Afghan commanders, who fear a Northern Alliance takeover. Not wanting...

I read this, about how Gaza needs a Ghandi, apparently, so I looked this up… Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the...

So the LA Times has this story, that Bush the Second wants to use nukes. Obviously, none of these people have watched enough Dr Strangelove. The New York Times has this, and the BBC...

I found a source for this quote, and others: The [blast] kill mechanism against living targets is unique–and unpleasant…. What kills is the pressure wave, and more importantly, the subsequent rarefaction [vacuum], which ruptures...

So echoing my earlier piece, this article questions why Bush the Second’s new budget features no real increase in aid for developing countries and in fact reductions for most of them. With noble flourish...

Every so often I read some techno-goggle-eyed stupidity like this: I think the movie succeeded in doing what the book was meant to do – it sparks the imagination! What IS the world going...

And in a related development, Budweiser are now tracking lager drinkers’ locations using satellite surveillance. This is great news. Now drinkers of crappy lager everywhere can be zapped from space, either with the Orbital...

So after the Pentagon removed GPS’s Selective Availability, the maximum GPS accuracy is typically within 10 to 20 meters. Differential GPS can reduce this to minute levels, very useful for calling in airstrikes and...

Celibacy creates pedophile priests not by turning priests into pedophiles, but by turning pedophiles into priests.